User blog:Thornclaw Braveheart/The Curse of the Black Shadow

I don't know why, but this is devoted to all the D&D fans out there who love Mind Flayers and Dragonborn.

Prologue
''I don't have much time. The world is crumbling before us, as the Curse continues to take it's toll. It's turned beasts everywhere into living abominations and horrors, and there is nothing we can do about it. Order is a thing long gone, and chaos rules now. Wolves, foxes, cats, and rats are all inflicted with the disease that turns them into horrendous beasts who no longer believe in the order the once did, but every full moon, they turn into primal beasts of primordial violence. Beasts rise from the dead as corpses with no remembrance of who they once were, to serve a master who has risen them. Even the sun barely shows itself anymore. It seems to many that all is now lost.''

''But all is not completely lost. Redwall Abbey stands firm against the horrors of darkness. It may fall soon, giving in to the horrors, but while it stands, no abomination may pass. But that will not last long. Vesor, a wolf who calls himself the Lich, is summoning the corpses of long-dead creatures to assault Redwall and destroy all we have left. Our only hope is in those that Abbeydwellers have come to call the Few. A band of brave adventurers, they possess a strange resistance to the Curse of the Black Shadow, and while some carry it, they know how to control the Curse and manipulate it so that they can use it to their own purposes. They are the banners of hope now, the slayers of abominations and abberrations all across Mossflower. They can save us...I hope...''

The Rules

 * 1) Obey the Protocol.
 * 2) You can have up to 3 characters and what I'd call "lackeys" (minions who serve your main character and have no profiles).
 * 3) I will actually allow cannibalism, romance, and suicide (but keep the third one to a minimum).
 * 4) There will be no magic unless you're a victim of the Curse or one of Vesor's necromancer servants.
 * 5) Have loads and loads of fun!

The Curse of the Black Shadow
The Curse inflicts people randomly and is transmitted from other creatures who have been infected. They can cause vampirism, lycanthropy (well, since this is Redwall, let's say that those infected with lycanthropy turn into savage beasts), and those who have been killed can be risen from the dead (zombies, ghouls, wights, whatever). Some of those infected with the Curse can use it to their advantage as good characters, though. It's incredibly rare, but possible. About 98% of the time they just succumb to evil. Many die eventually anyways.

Powers
Vampirism: Vampires have supernatural strength and agility, and at night they can grow huge bat wings that they use for flight. Being bitten by a vampire will only turn one into a vampire if the victim is still alive and the wound is not mortal. Vampires can also use telepathy. Vampires cannot reproduce.

Lycanthropy: Lycanthropes have to turn into their primal form as a savage beast under the full moon, and have no remembrance of who he or she was before. Only very powerful lycanthropes can remember what they did under this form. In normal form, they still have supernatural strength and agility. Being bitten by a lycanthrope during the full moon turns you into one, so long as you're still alive, but being bitten during the day or a normal night just gives you slightly more bestial habits. Lycanthropes can reproduce and their children are always lycanthropes, but a lycanthrope and non-lycanthrope union produces a Shifter, who cannot change into the primal form but still has more bestial habits.

Weaknesses
Vampirism: Vampires are not killed by sunlight, but they cannot grow their wings or turn people into vampires under the sun. This does not count if the vampire is underground or otherwise away from light. Garlic won't do anything, but vampires do have a distaste for them. To kill a vampire, you need to stab it directly through the heart, then decapitate it and burn the head so that the vampire doesn't rise from the dead the next day as a zombie.

Lycanthropy: Lycanthropes can only be killed by silver weapons or implements. Any other injuries automatically are healed, except for severed limbs. Lycanthropes can also be killed by other lycanthropes.

Characters
Please keep to this profile, but feel free to add more if you want:

Name:

Gender:

Species:

Age:

Appearance:

Personality:

Weapons:

Alignment [With Vesor, with Redwall, or neutral]:

Curse Effects [Vampirism, Lycanthropy, or None, only one of those]:

Background:

Vesor the Lich
Gender: Male

Species: Wolf

Age: Unknown, but appears to be in his mid-40s

Appearance: Gray fur, is missing left eye, and has a long scar on right paw. Wears a black robe and chainmail over it. The chainmail is enchanted to absorb necrotic magic.

Personality: A sadistic, sarcastic-using maniac who is obsessed with dominating others. When in the knowledge that he has a victory, Vesor commonly acts slightly childish, but this conceals his real demeanor.

Weapons: Carries a long, black scythe made from the spine of a badger, with the badger's dried heart strapped on the top.

Alignment: He IS Vesor

Curse Affects: None, but is a Lich and therefore the strongest necromancer known

Background: Little is known of Vesor except that he first appeared with a small horde of vampires and lycanthropes near Salamandastron, and besieged the mountain, using necrotic powers to raise dead hares and his own casualties from death as zombies and wights. He slew the Badger Lord himself and now carries some of his body parts as trophies. Salamandastron, now renamed Sorrowsworn, is his base of operations and tries to conquer all of Mossflower now.